Easiest job to play (for someone with arthritis)?

[LaeLena]

TL;DR Looking for a job that is simple to play, forgiving and gives me time to move my fingers from one button to the next. So basically caster / healer, but don't want to heal until I'm confortable with fight mechanics.

The long version:

I have arthritis (and a few other conditions that affect my joints, ligaments and muscle control) and because of that my fingers have limited and slower movement. I used to play BRD before the expansions. It was simple, not too many buttons and the gameplay wasn't spammy so it was perfect for me. I quit when HW came out because of the BRD changes and not being able to find a new job to play. I've been playing on and off since then because I really loved the game, the community and being able to do everything on one character. Sometimes I've paid the sub just to fish and gather all day :D

Now I'm looking to pick up this game again and actually making it my #1 game instead of playing for a few days and then not bothering for the next 4-6 months. So I need a job that would be suited for someone who doesn't have the ability to hit buttons like a "normal" person would. I'm stuck with 1-5, F1-F4 and 4 extra mouse buttons. Melee classes aren't an option because they require faster movement from one button to the next and there is often more stuff to dodge. Healers I plan on trying, but first I want to learn the dungeons etc so people aren't stuck with a healer who dies to the first mechanic. My research on google and Youtube seemed to leave me with 2 options; BLM and RDM. Ofc those forums threads and videos don't take into account special conditions like the one I'm stuck with so I'm hoping I could get some insight to what really is easy to play. I won't be doing any serious end game stuff like raids or extreme primals so being able to execute a rotation with 99% perfection isn't a requirement, but I'd still like to play something that doesn't get broken if I fail to press a button.

[ZeeHero]

I would say any job except maybe monk bard and machinist. the global cooldown is quite long and hence you do have about 2 seconds to move your fingers in between each button press.

[c0ndu]

Samurai. It's also fun.

P.S. Would stay away from Dragoon. It has lots of oGCD skills and sometimes you even have to double weave them between normal GCD skills.

[Prince Vegeta]

Цитата допису Eddie:

Цитата допису Outlaw Star:

+1 for summoner, super easy lazy class. Was one of the first I got to 70 so when i'm super tired or overly baked I can just chill in the back row no worries.

-1 for summoner, it's the most difficult caster and one of the most punishing classes for mistakes.

You are very funny guy. I have only done Dragoon, Samurai, Paladin, White Mage, and Summoner to max so far, then some are 50 the rest are 30 or not interested. Of the ones I have completed playing Summoner is by far the easiest.

I mean, you are back row in any instance, doesn't get easier than back row dps. In the open world you have the option to bring titan and a chocobo, you basically have your own party at all times.

[LaeLena]

Цитата допису Outlaw Star:

Цитата допису Eddie:

-1 for summoner, it's the most difficult caster and one of the most punishing classes for mistakes.

You are very funny guy. I have only done Dragoon, Samurai, Paladin, White Mage, and Summoner to max so far, then some are 50 the rest are 30 or not interested. Of the ones I have completed playing Summoner is by far the easiest.

I mean, you are back row in any instance, doesn't get easier than back row dps. In the open world you have the option to bring titan and a chocobo, you basically have your own party at all times.

Being back row dps does not guarantee an easy rotation or that you don't get punished for making a mistake. From my understanding making a mistake in the SMN rotation will hurt your performance a lot. Also pets need to be micromanaged = more buttons to worry about.

Anyway, ty all for the input. I'm currently leveling as BLM on a new character.. I found that easier than picking up my old char. So far it has been very easy on my hands, but after spending a few hours on watching max level gameplay and "reviews" of the class it started to sound like fire mage in WoW ("Sorry, can't move. Big fire thing coming up, also have to stand in a circle.") and I don't really like fire mage :/ I guess I have to see how it starts to feel later on as I'm only level 30 something now. And 100% must try RDM to compare the two.. hopefully I'll get to that soon.

[Nico Yazawa]

Цитата допису MiiMuu:

Цитата допису Outlaw Star:

You are very funny guy. I have only done Dragoon, Samurai, Paladin, White Mage, and Summoner to max so far, then some are 50 the rest are 30 or not interested. Of the ones I have completed playing Summoner is by far the easiest.

I mean, you are back row in any instance, doesn't get easier than back row dps. In the open world you have the option to bring titan and a chocobo, you basically have your own party at all times.

Being back row dps does not guarantee an easy rotation or that you don't get punished for making a mistake. From my understanding making a mistake in the SMN rotation will hurt your performance a lot. Also pets need to be micromanaged = more buttons to worry about.

Anyway, ty all for the input. I'm currently leveling as BLM on a new character.. I found that easier than picking up my old char. So far it has been very easy on my hands, but after spending a few hours on watching max level gameplay and "reviews" of the class it started to sound like fire mage in WoW ("Sorry, can't move. Big fire thing coming up, also have to stand in a circle.") and I don't really like fire mage :/ I guess I have to see how it starts to feel later on as I'm only level 30 something now. And 100% must try RDM to compare the two.. hopefully I'll get to that soon.

The guy advocating for SMN is probably just a scrub SMN who puts his dots and does nothing else and waits.

Sure, it's easy to "play" but to play well is a different beast.

[ZeeHero]

Цитата допису Shirayuki Z:

Цитата допису Elazul:

Red Mage is brain dead easy to play I'd recommend that.

The only post in this thread which is making sense.

Not even. It's the only class without a stupidly high skill cap, but thats just a sign of its excellent design.

[Nico Yazawa]

Цитата допису ZeeHero:

Цитата допису Shirayuki Z:

The only post in this thread which is making sense.

Not even. It's the only class without a stupidly high skill cap, but thats just a sign of its excellent design.

Which means it's brain dead.

[Eddie]

Цитата допису Koishi Komeiji:

Цитата допису ZeeHero:

Not even. It's the only class without a stupidly high skill cap, but thats just a sign of its excellent design.

Which means it's brain dead.

It isn't brain dead though. There are some deeper optimizations to be made that can put you far ahead of other RDMs. Things like knowing when to fish for a second proc so you can have both active at once. Never letting impact fall off. Knowing when to support the raid or be selfish with your buff, and knowing when to place it in your combo. Knowing what skills can animation cancel.

This is also not mentioning the party awareness you need as a RDM so you can support with vercure, raise, and mana shifts.

[Eddie]

Цитата допису Shirayuki Z:

Цитата допису Eddie:

It isn't brain dead though. There are some deeper optimizations to be made that can put you far ahead of other RDMs. Things like knowing when to fish for a second proc so you can have both active at once. Never letting impact fall off. Knowing when to support the raid or be selfish with your buff, and knowing when to place it in your combo. Knowing what skills can animation cancel.

This is also not mentioning the party awareness you need as a RDM so you can support with vercure, raise, and mana shifts.

Same goes for all other jobs, these are basics, the thing is unlike other jobs RDM does not have anything else to learn after that. They don't have positionals, they don't have dots, their buffs servers only as an addition and failing them changes nothing (unlike BLM and SMN).

RDM is even easier to learn than tanks.

True. Though that makes them incredible for progression content as you can put all your brainpower towards mechanics.

[ZeeHero]

RDM is a dps class and hence much harder to learn than tanks or healers. DPS is the hardest role in the game to perform well its only easy if you want to suck at it.

People who claim the game or the classes are easy need their heads examined.

[mutantbeth]

perhaps black mage and maybe red mage. they rarely ever need to move and their patterns are easy

[mutantbeth]

Цитата допису ZeeHero:

RDM is a dps class and hence much harder to learn than tanks or healers. DPS is the hardest role in the game to perform well its only easy if you want to suck at it.

People who claim the game or the classes are easy need their heads examined.

dps is super easy. just do as much damage as possible. healer needs to keep everyone alive even if they arent using cooldowns or are aoe magnets.

[Itharius]

If you want to tank, the tank classes are all fairly easy on the fingers, requiring a button press only every 2 seconds or so. They are also a lot easier to do the MSQ with, because you get instant dungeon queues and can facetank most solo scenario mechanics. Warrior does burst damage that rivals dps jobs, so you might consider that.

[Itharius]

Цитата допису Shirayuki Z:

In terms of learning the job DPS are definitely the hardest, in real gameplay we may replace it with healers, in both cases tanks are the easiest though.

You can't just blanket claim one role is the easiest or hardest when they require completely different skills. That said, OP asked which job is the least spammiest because he has arthritis, so which role is "easiest" is a moot point. Bard is very easy, but I wouldn't recommend it because OP's fingers would fall off.

[LaeLena]

After playing to 50+ as BLM I finally gave RDM a try. Even tho RDM has many "moving parts" aka balancing white & black mana, procs, switching between caster and melee and quite a lot of skills to bind I still prefer RDM and have enjoyed playing it. I managed to bind all the abilities without issues after making a few hotbar change macros so the rotation stays shorter;
1-4 is Veraero/thunder, Verstone/fire, Jolt, Impact and Verstone/fire switches the bar between white and black mana generators
5 is Corps-a-corps and it will switch to the melee abilities (which again are 1-4) and Displacement will switch back to my ranged bar
F1-F4 is Fleche, Contre Sixte, Verholy and Verflare
Cooldowns are bound to extra mouse buttons along with a mouseover Verraise macro

Macros often aren't the best option in this game, but so far this seems to work just fine and I can tweak the macros as I get better playing RDM and I can still manually change bars when required for example when Displacement would make me jump to my death.

P.S. Tanking is not my cup of tea. Well ok I like playing them solo, but in groups I find it the most stressful thing to do and my brain disconnects when something goes even mildly wrong. I mean I know what I'm supposed to do in any given situation, but my brain never sends the signal to do it...So I'm like a deer in the headlights :D